West India Customs and Manners: Containing Strictures on the Soil, Cultivation, Produce, Trade, Officers, and Inhabitants: with the Method of Establishing, and Conducting a Sugar Plantation. To which is Added, the Practice of Training New Slaves. By J. B. Moreton, Esq. A New Edition |
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الصفحة 10
... gilding the ocean with a glittering hue ; to view the beauteous dolphin giving
chase to myriads of flying.filh , promiscuously rising and skimming the air like
birds , to evade them ; with sharks , porpoises and bonnettas innumerable all
around ...
... gilding the ocean with a glittering hue ; to view the beauteous dolphin giving
chase to myriads of flying.filh , promiscuously rising and skimming the air like
birds , to evade them ; with sharks , porpoises and bonnettas innumerable all
around ...
الصفحة 52
The distill - house is commonly annexed to the boiling - house , or very
contiguous to it , wherein the cisterns , or vats , for fermenting the skimmings and
molasses are placed . At the beginning of crop great care should be taken to
have them ...
The distill - house is commonly annexed to the boiling - house , or very
contiguous to it , wherein the cisterns , or vats , for fermenting the skimmings and
molasses are placed . At the beginning of crop great care should be taken to
have them ...
الصفحة 53
1 in that of good strong fermented liquor , and that of bad ; five gallons of
skimmings is supposed to be equal to one gallon of molasses ; I always found
that fourteen gallons of sweets in every hundred gallons of the mixture yielded
the best ...
1 in that of good strong fermented liquor , and that of bad ; five gallons of
skimmings is supposed to be equal to one gallon of molasses ; I always found
that fourteen gallons of sweets in every hundred gallons of the mixture yielded
the best ...
الصفحة 54
care cannot be taken to have the skimmings and lees pure and cool when set ;
the liquor should be skimmed three or four times daily , and the vats or cisterns ,
every time when empried , should be washed well ; if the mixture when set is too
...
care cannot be taken to have the skimmings and lees pure and cool when set ;
the liquor should be skimmed three or four times daily , and the vats or cisterns ,
every time when empried , should be washed well ; if the mixture when set is too
...
الصفحة 55
... and that divided into an hundred equal parts , and marked so on the rod ; then
if molasses be thrown into a cistern until it is eight of those parts deep ,
confequently , let it be ever so large , that is eight per cent .; again , if skimmings
be put in ...
... and that divided into an hundred equal parts , and marked so on the rod ; then
if molasses be thrown into a cistern until it is eight of those parts deep ,
confequently , let it be ever so large , that is eight per cent .; again , if skimmings
be put in ...
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